October 24, 2003
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Another TOY blog…
We were at Keith‘s apartment Tuesday night to pick up a TV that he has so kindly lent us. I couldn’t resist taking photos of his lucha toy collection. And there’s plenty more than this!
We’ve been thinking about toys forever and have so many unanswered questions. Why are there no luchador kubricks or vinyl figures? Wouldn’t it be cool to get our OWN lucha libre figurines out there? How does one make this dream a reality?
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Fwak! Toy Story so far…
© Fwak! AnimationThose who know me know that I’ve been wanting to get figurines made of our characters ever since I discovered vinyl figures. This is a side project and mission which I’m researching and keen to learn more about. The main challenges are finding licensing contacts and knowing how to finance the design/production of prototypes.
The figures above of Cosmic Baby, El Bastardo and Super Mahi Tiki were made by Paul Wright, a sculptor friend. (There are only 3 of these and they are not the final approved prototype designs.)
So where to go from here? If you are a vinyl figure savvy 3D-modeller or sculptor who can help us take our character designs to toy-production level, I’d like to discuss. Please email me!
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LINKS
- There’s a Hong Kong Toy Convention early next year. Maybe we’ll go…Must learn more about the business of toy licensing…
- Kidrobot.com’s discussion forum on customizing & toymaking
- How To Break Into The Designer Toys Market (an interview at Action-HQ.com) - I haven’t read this yet
- There’s a Kill Bill bearbrick!
- … and this very cool B-grade Mummy figure. Created by Abnormalhobby (<– interview) I’m gonna to get me one of these from Figuro.com!
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Comments (5)
Just a thought – the greenie in me says make them out of recycled/recyclable material for the thousands [millions?
] who don’t keep their pop culture icons for posterity. I’ll have on of those CBs when they’re ready. Too cute!
Sparx
thought you might find this article interesting!
hope you are both having a great trip!
john
thanks john!
What article? Is there supposed to be a link in your comment?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/technology/circuits/06toys.html
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